Chapters of Brazil's colonial history, 1500-1800 / Capistrano de Abreu ; translated from the Portugu...
Chapters of Brazil's colonial history, 1500-1800 / Capistrano de Abreu ; translated from the Portugu...
Chapters of Brazil's colonial history, 1500-1800 / Capistrano de Abreu ; translated from the Portuguese by Arthur Brakel ; with a preface by Fernando A. Novais, and an introduction by Stuart Schwartz.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Date
1997.
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N981.03/8
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English
Portuguese
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xxxiv, 236 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Preface / Fernando A. Novais -- A House Built on Sand: Capistrano de Abreu and the History of Brazil / Stuart Schwartz -- 1. Indigenous Antecedents -- 2. Exotic Elements -- 3. The Discoverers -- 4. The First Conflicts -- 5. Hereditary Captaincies -- 6. Crown Captaincies -- 7. Frenchmen and Spaniards...
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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New York (State)
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1997.
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Summary
In all the history of Latin America, few historians have been so influential as the Brazilian scholar Joao Capistrano de Abreu. Now, for the first time, his central work, a classic of historical literature, appears in a sharp, clear English translation.
In Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Breaking with previous writers, who had taken a plodding governor-after-governor approach that rested upon administration and politics, he offers a startlingly modern analysis o...
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Chapters of Brazil's colonial history, 1500-1800 / Capistrano de Abreu ; translated from the Portuguese by Arthur Brakel ; with a preface by Fernando A. Novais, and an introduction by Stuart Schwartz.
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Library of Latin America.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-220) and index.
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N981.03/8
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74VMQL57al43
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ISBN
0195103017 (acid-free paper)
9780195103014 (acid-free paper)
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981.03
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991000486669702626
